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To run a successful professional services business, managers must understand how to effectively account for their consulting staff’s productivity. But assessing productivity can be challenging without a standardized formula for calculating billable utilization.

The PMO of the Year Award honors a PMO that has demonstrated superior organizational project management abilities by adding value to its organization through its support of successful strategic initiatives. The award recognizes a PMO that has established a vision for value delivery and has had a positive and clear impact on business results. The PMO of the Year Award will be presented at the 2015 PMO Symposium. The submission deadline is 1 May 2015.

Agile is having a moment. But along with this sudden fame comes the inevitable oversimplifications and forced contrasts, such as the supposed clash of the methodologies that pits agile against formal project management.

A technique used to identify and analyze the corresponding entities and activities needed to satisfy customer requirements. Results of applying the technique are incorporated into building an information architecture.

"The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM or SW-CMM) is a model for judging the maturity of the software processes of an organization and for identifying the key practices that are required to increase the maturity of these processes." Sounds easy enough, right? But there's more to it. Through this site, you can learn not only the basics of this model, but how the CMM can be integrated and what it means for software engineers.

This case study delves into the project management techniques used on the multi-billion (10 plus) US dollars Department of Energy's (DOE) project called the Superconducting Super-Collider (SSC). A high-energy subatomic particle accelerator set to be the most powerful in the world, the SSC project's intended end result was a product to be used for research and development. Purchase this item in the PMI Store, where PMI members receive discounted prices.